Uruguay Choose for Olympic Qualifiers

Uruguay is very much dreaming of playing Rugby Sevens at the Olympic Games. Men’s and women’s squads from the eastern South American republic will take part in this weekend’s qualifying tournament at Club C.R.A.I in Santa Fé, Argentina and do so looking to earn the right to compete at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

The three-day tournament will be played from Friday to Sunday with all competing teams in the men’s and women’s division facing all opponents. The top teams from both divisions upon completion of the competition will qualify directly for Rio de Janeiro while the runners-up and the third places sides will have one last shot via a global repecharge tournament featuring runner-up from other regions.

The qualifying is to feature eight countries – Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Of them all expect Costa Rica will field teams in both divisions. Costa Rica will only participate in the women’s qualifiers. The sucessful qualifiers will join the host nation Brazil in representing South America at the Olympic Games.

Los Teros (men)
Gabriel Puig, Juan Diego Ormaechea, Hernan Pintos, Lucas Puig, Santiago Martines, Rodrigo Silva, Nicolas Freitas, Sebastian Schroeder, Diego Pons, Federico Favaro, Santiago Hernandez and Tomás Etcheverry.

Staff
Luis Pedro Achard, Diego Rodriguez, Diego Gonzalez and Gabriel Puig.

Fixtures
Uruguay vs Paraguay (Friday June 5, 1:34pm)
Uruguay vs Colombia (Friday June 5, 4:30pm)
Uruguay vs Chile (Saturday June 6, 10:14am)
Uruguay vs Venezuela (Saturday June 6, 12:04pm)
Uruguay vs Peru (Saturday June 6, 2:40pm)
Uruguay vs Argentina (Sunday June 7, 2:42pm)

Las Teras (women)
Ceciclia Verocai, Flavia De María, Florencia Acerbis, Victoria Rios, Adriana Altamiranda, Jessica, Centurión, Valentina Almeida, Fernanda Tejera, Lucía Sancristobal, María Eugenia Cruces, Mariana Sancristobal and Shamila Malaquina.

Staff
Germán Verocai and Walter De Los Santos.

Fixtures
Uruguay vs Peru (Friday June 5, 9:30am)
Uruguay vs Argentina (Friday June 5, 1:12pm)
Uruguay vs Paraguay (Friday June 5, 3:02pm)
Uruguay vs Colombia (Saturday June 6, 11:20am)
Uruguay vs Venezuela (Saturday June 6, 1:56pm)
Uruguay vs Costa Rica (Sunday June 7, 11:04am)
Uruguay vs Chile (Sunday June 7, 12:54pm)